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Students to attend FFA Boise leadership
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January 17, 2016 |
by Mary Fioravanti
The Bonners Ferry FFA Chapter has been growing
rapidly within the last two years, getting
students involved in agriculture and the
community. Being a part of the FFA organization
allows members to travel around the country
learning important skills and knowledge. The
National FFA Organization practices “premier
leadership, personal growth, and career
success,” while also putting into action the FFA
motto: “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning
to Live, Living to Serve.” In the agriculture
department at the Bonners Ferry High School,
enthusiastic FFA members are gearing up for the
212/360 leadership conference in Boise where
they will put these newly-found skills to use.
Each year towards the end of January, the
Bonners Ferry FFA Chapter travels down to Boise,
Idaho for a leadership building conference
called 212/360. This year the FFA chapter is
leaving town on Sunday morning January 24, and
will be returning on Tuesday night January 26.
While they are away, students that are members
of the FFA will be attending numerous events,
activities, and training workshops.
As you may be wondering about the title of the
trip, the numbers 212 and 360 each have
different meanings behind them. The reason the
FFA leadership conference is entitled 212/360 is
for the levels of growth each member surpasses
within their learning stages.
The number 212 is for the amount in degrees for
the boiling temperature of water. The 212
workshops are for underclassmen such as freshmen
and sophomores, and are supposed to spark their
interests and give them a boiling sense for
strength and honor. The National FFA
Organization describes the themes for 212 using
the words “virtues, growth, and collaboration.”
The number 360 is the degree mark for a complete
circle. The 360 workshops are attended by FFA
members, typically juniors and seniors, who in
previous years went to the 212 workshops. Here
they will be learning to combine everything they
were taught to create a powerful and influential
effect on others and their community. Students
going to the 360 conference are taken through a
full circle of chapter leadership development
along the themes of “action and influence,”
described by the words of the National FFA
Organization.
There are multiple workshops going on at the
212/360 conference that consist of leadership
building activities and games. The workshops are
lead by FFA state officers working with
different aspects of the organization: ‘premier
leadership, personal growth, and career
success,’ while also incorporating other unique
lessons and morals.
Additionally, Bonners Ferry FFA members will not
only get to attend these leadership workshops,
but while down in Boise they will also take a
tour of the capital building. The Bonners Ferry
Chapter will be guests at a Boise capital
lunch-in and have the opportunity to meet their
elected officials. Our FFA chapter will be
meeting Idaho legislators, senators,
representatives, and Governor Butch Otter.
We all know what it is like to be nervous in a
new place filled with strangers, and the easiest
thing to do is to just hide in your shell, but
at the various Idaho leadership conferences
young FFA members start to blossom and build
courage. They go meet new people that are FFA
members coming from all across the state of
Idaho, and make new friendships that last a long
time. Students aren’t the only ones to ever get
nervous; you must admit that many adults still
get anxious in new places too. That is why it is
so amazing that these students are getting out
into the world and experiencing new things
through the FFA! |
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